What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Always come down from the barren heights of cleverness into the green valleys of folly.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Tags: philosophy

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If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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To imagine a language is to imagine a form of life.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Tags: life philosophy

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Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Tags: education mind social-anxiety

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Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing that things which look the same are really different. I was thinking of using as a motto for my book a quotation from King Lear: 'I’ll teach you differences'.
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'You’d be surprised' wouldn’t be a bad motto either.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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